Freeport – Lillian Louise Parker Grover, age 88, of Wardtown Road, died peacefully on Sunday, August 3, at the Freeport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with her daughter and son-in-law by her side.

Lillian was born on Dec. 6, 1919 in Wilton to Albert Woodbridge and Ethel Dakin Parker, the fifth of seven children. She graduated from Wilton Academy and then attended nurses training in Waterville before her marriage. She married Henry J. Grover on Jan. 9, 1939, and during World War II, she lived in Strong. They moved to Freeport from Wilton in 1958.

She worked at Shuttleworth’s, then Leighton’s in Freeport for many years. After the “Great Fire” in 1984, Lillian went to work for L.L. Bean.

She was a cancer survivor since 1964. Several bouts with the disease never dampened her enthusiasm for life. “Life was a beach” to our mother, says daughter Pat. The days spent at her camp in Weld surrounded by extended family were special to her. If she couldn’t be at the camp she would be at the beach somewhere. Winters in Florida became her annual routine, first with her good friend, Sally, then with her son, Charles and his wife, Marleen, at his home in Englewood, Fla.

Surviving are two sons, Jon T. Grover of Weld and Charles A. Grover, and his wife, Marleen, of Freeport; her daughter, Patrice (Griffin) Blake and husband, Robert W., of Otisfield; her six grandsons, Jon T. Grover of Sebago, Matthew H. Grover of Sarasota, Fla., Trent P. Griffin of Topsham, Nathan S. Griffin of Topsham, Adam S. Grover of Northport, Fla., and Seth W. Grover of Venice, Fla., eight great-grandchildren and four long awaited girls.

She is the only surviving sibling in her family. She was also predeceased by her husband, who died on Sept. 21, 2005, a son, Donn Bient Grover, and an infant daughter, Linda.